WACO, Texas (AP) — Daxter Miles Jr. stepped up with a kind of play West Virginia coach Bob Huggins has become accustomed to seeing, and it was needed after the No. 21 Mountaineers saw their 28-point get trimmed to 12.
Miles made a 3-pointer while being fouled with just under 7 minutes left, ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — C.J. Burks sank a layup with a second to go for the win as Marshall edged North Texas 74-72 on Saturday afternoon.
Marshall trailed 72-68 late when Burks sank a jumper and Ajdin Penava followed with a layup to tie it 72-72 with 35 seconds left. North Texas' Ryan ...

By The Associated Press
A look at the upcoming weekend around the Big 12:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND: West Virginia at Kansas. The Jayhawks enter the weekend a game behind league-leading Texas Tech with five games left to play. The Mountaineers are two games behind the Red Raiders and can draw even ...

By JOHN RABY, AP Sports Writer
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Teddy Allen emerged from a scoring slump and gave No. 20 West Virginia hope that it still has some fight left in the Big 12 race.
The 6-foot-5 freshman came off the bench to score 16 points and lead the Mountaineers to an 82-66 victory ...

By JOHN LOWE, Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Road games against ranked teams don't seem to be much of a problem for coach Mike Boynton Jr and his Cowboys.
Kendall Smith and Cameron McGriff each scored 20 points and Oklahoma State beat another ranked team on the road, topping No. ...

By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer
Things lined up nicely for coach Tom Herman and the Texas Longhorns to have one of the top signing classes in the nation, not just the best in the Big 12 Conference.
After a winning record on the field in Herman's first season, the Longhorns also made ...

By CLIFF BRUNT, AP Sports Writer
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Finally, West Virginia looked like a Bob Huggins-coached team.
Lamont West scored 17 points, and the 19th-ranked Mountaineers survived a 32-point night from Oklahoma's Trae Young to escape with a 75-73 win over the 17th-ranked Sooners on ...

By JOHN LOWE, Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Once Jatarie White hit the floor, it was smooth sailing for Texas.
White had 18 points and 10 rebounds for her second double-double of the season to lead No. 6 Texas over West Virginia 73-55 on Monday night.
The Longhorns (19-4, 10-2 ...

By JOHN RABY, AP Sports Writer
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Even with several players recuperating from the flu bug, West Virginia's defense can still frustrate the tar out of opponents.
One game after allowing the most points in a Big 12 game since joining the league in 2012, No. 15 West ...

By JOHN LOWE, Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Once Kalani Brown and Baylor got busy on the boards, they were fine.
Brown put up her third straight double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Kristy Wallace scored 25 points and third-ranked Baylor rallied in the second half to ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Darius Thompson scored 20 points, Dwight Coleby had a double-double and Western Kentucky scored the last 15 points of the game to defeat Marshall 85-74 on Saturday night.
Marshall took a 74-70 lead with 4:39 to play after Jon Elmore made four free throws following a ...

By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Basketball Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — This was the kind of home-court celebration Jamie Dixon envisioned for TCU when he returned to his alma mater less than two years ago.
Students spilled onto the court, some even lifting Dixon into the air, after the Horned ...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Loryn Goodwin scored 14 of her 30 points in the fourth quarter to help No. 24 Oklahoma State pull away and beat No. 17 West Virginia 79-73 on Wednesday night.
Oklahoma State (13-4, 4-2 Big 12 Conference) rebounded from a 16-point loss at Kansas State on Saturday and ...

By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer
The Big 12 can stake a claim as the nation's best conference. It has the top RPI rating, five teams ranked in the AP Top 25 and eight teams in the top 50 of the KenPom.com rankings.
The only problem: The teams have been beating up on each other since ...